Jack Sarfatti

Jack Sarfatti
Sarfatti in November 2007
Born	(1939-09-14) September 14, 1939 (age 77) Brooklyn, New York
Residence	North Beach, San Francisco, California
Education	BA, physics, Cornell University, 1960 MS, physics, UC San Diego, 1967 PhD, physics, UC Riverside, 1969
Website	stardrive.org

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely outside academia, Sarfatti specializes in the study of quantum physics and consciousness. He argues for retrocausality, that mind is crucial to the structure of matter, and that physics—which he calls the "Conceptual Art of the late 20th Century"—has replaced philosophy as the unifying force between science and art.

Sarfatti was a leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists in California in the 1970s who, according to historian of science David Kaiser, helped to nurture some of the alternative ideas in quantum physics that today form the basis of quantum information science. Sarfatti co-wrote Space-Time and Beyond (1974) by Bob Toben and Fred Alan Wolf, and has self-published three of his own books, Space-Time And Beyond II (2002), Destiny Matrix (2002), and Super Cosmos (2005).

Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Hyman and Millie Sarfatti. His father was born in Kastoria, Greece, and moved to New York as a child with his family.

Sarfatti attended Midwood High School in Flatbush, Brooklyn, graduating in 1956. In Destiny Matrix (2002), Sarfatti wrote that, when he was 13, he received at least one telephone call from a voice that said it was a conscious computer on a spaceship. The voice said he had been identified as "one of 400 bright young receptive minds," and that he would be picked up shortly from his building's fire escape. He and several friends waited, he wrote, but nothing happened.

In 1960 he obtained his BA in physics from Cornell University, and in 1963 published his first paper, "Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields," in Nuovo Cimento, the journal of the Italian Physical Society. He obtained his MS in physics in 1967 from the University of California, San Diego, and his PhD in 1969 from the University of California, Riverside—where he studied under Fred Cummings—for a thesis entitled "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity." He and Cummings co-wrote a paper, "Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium," published in Physica Scripta in 1970.